Memories of the Future should have been released already, but it was significantly delayed when I did a whole bunch of the "acting" part of the "Writer/Actor" multiclassing I've been doing for the last few levels. However, I took a giant leap toward release (wow, that sounds dirty) about 40 minu...

If you only have 3 minutes to spend watching an awesome video today, I hope you'll spend it watching the trailer for this Sunday's TNG reunion show on Family Guy. I didn't get to work with any of the TNG cast when I recorded my scenes, but I just love it that we all came back to do this show...

I have yet another crazy idea (different from the other crazy idea I was talking about yesterday) that involves digging through very old archives to see if it will even work. So while I was doing that earlier today (and cringing a lot at how much I needed to mature as a writer) I came across thi...

I don't think you need a lot of context from me to set this up, so I'll just say that this happened last night on Twitter: Me: @BrentSpiner: Just watched you on Leverage - You ROCKED. You were such an awesome dirtbag, and I know a thing or two about playing dirtbags. Brent: @wilw Thanks Wil. I...

After playing Rock Band 2 for 2 straight hours and struggling though some songs I've never played before, I was worried that when the videos started making their way online, I'd look like an asshole who didn't know how to play fake instruments, and that everyone would laugh at me. But when I...

Oh man, I had more fun than should be legally allowed while working on this month's Geek in Review, Sci-Fi Guilty Pleasures: Schwarzenegger Edition: Long before he was the most dangerously incompetent governor California has ever had, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action superstar on th...

Today is my birthday, and while not a lot happened today, I have to say this will be one of the most remembered one. I never thought I'd live to see a historical moment as having President Obama being sworn in. What a pleasant surprise that it's on my b.day! Very cool.

I'm way too busy today to take time out and write the post that I wanted to write about Obama's inauguration, but I wanted to single out the part of President Obama's inaugural speech – a classy and necessary repudiation of the Bush years, I thought – that I was hoping to hear: As for our commo...

I'll play with three people at a time, taking whatever instrument they don't want to play.
Dude, you're probably going to be singing all night!
I totally wish I could be there...stupid being poor and on the east coast...bleh.

Totally unrelated to this post: I'm in today's Dork Tower. It's part of the hilarious Tao of Igor series, and it made me giggle. As promised, here's my schedule for the Phoenix Comicon. If this is your first time at a con, and you don't know what to expect, you should read what John Scalzi said ...

Oh kids. Oh, oh kids. This first chart keeps things simple by charting the origins of D&D and the evolution of D&D, AD&D, and the positioning of some other early developments, up to the debut of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition in 1989. Perhaps later I'll take things from 2E through 4...

This is just awesome. Three thoughts: 1) HijiNKS Ensue joins Something Positive to be the second comic in the last week that's made me feel more awesome than I deserve, or will ever actually be. 2) Greg is probably famous enough to actually get to meet him, but this is likely the closest I'll ev...

I just called Ryan at school and told him to look around, because he'll want to remember where he was when Barack Obama was elected president. I'm too giddy and relieved for deep thoughts, and there's a bottle of champagne that Anne and I have been waiting to open for a long time, so I'll jus...

Think Geek has way, way, way too much fun with the Dismember Me Plush Zombies: When I see stuff like this, I am inspired to make silly short films like this of my own. Then I look at all the other stuff I have to do, and I'm a little sad that I can't. Then I remember how lucky I am that I get...

I think the Braid/Magnatunes thing is awesome. My husband was playing the demo a while back (and, much like you, got the full game shortly after) and I was like "that music sounds familiar." I was pleasantly surprised.
It's a great game, but I seriously suck at it. I'm not good at the puzzle games :(.

So it turns out that I do, in fact, have a sinus infection. Because it's the first one post-sinus surgery, my doctor decided that the best course of action would be to blast off and nuke the site from orbit. I asked him if maybe we could do something a little less extreme, but he assured me that...

Way back in April, John Scalzi wrote on his blog: Arrangements have been made. Wheels set into motion. At this point, it is inevitable. Unavoidable. Implacable would not be too strong a word. What has begun? I cannot tell you. Suffice to say it is evil. And yet awesome, in its way. And it ...

I'm in Head Down mode while I race to the finishdeadline for the introduction to Your Hate Mail Will be Graded, which collects ten years (!) of John Scalzi's blog, Whatever. I care about this particular project more than I do the average project (which is already a lot, mind you) because John is...

My love of metahumor probably comes from the same place as my love of obscure references, which can be traced, in part, to MST3K. John Kovalic has been killing me with the metahumor this week, so for my fellow members of the metahumor appreciation society, I present Monday's and today's Dork Tow...

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo. I've been hearing about this for weeks, but didn't have time to watch the trailer until this morning. I was super excited to see that my fellow ACME-alumnus Felicia Day (one of the mad geniuses behind the hilarious-because-it's-painfull...

The 2008 Geek Tour rolls out of Los Angeles this weekend and into San Diego! Saturday, I'll be reading from The Happiest Days of Our Lives (and signing all of my books) at Mysterious Galaxy Books: Join us on Saturday, May 3, at 2:00 PM, when we host Wil Wheaton for his new collection of essays,...

With GTA IV coming out tomorrow, the usual gang of idiots are up in arms about how this game will lead to the end of civilization as we know it, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, etc. As I said in my PAX keynote, this sort of moralistic chest-thumping makes me a little stabby: Whenev...